Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only
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When people think of medicine, they generally don’t consider "The Gateway Drug", as marijuana is occasionally called, as their ordinary prescription. Most think of antibiotics, aspirins, or over the counter pills; it’s presumable that marijuana wasn’t the first thought in the majority of ....
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.... with chemotherapy, treating glaucoma, and in stimulating the appetite of AIDS patients (14, p.3). Studies have shown that marijuana clearly controls nausea and vomiting in many chemotherapy patients, helps AIDS patients gain weight, and greatly reduces damaging pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma (4, p.1). The fact that smoking marijuana to relieve medical distress is still illegal is alarming. If marijuana can help so many suffering victims of these ailments, then why keep it out of use? ....
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